Subj : Re: Intel's potential exit from advanced manufacturing
To   : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Thu Jul 31 2025 17:33:09

Hey Nightfox!

On Wed, Jul 30 2025 20:46:49 -0500, you wrote:

 > I don't remember Intel specifically telling you to overclock their 
 > CPUs..  I know of their Turbo Boost technology though (which I didn't 
 > think was really overclocking, but more of a power-saving technique 
 > to increase clock speed only when needed). And I know if their 
 > unlocked processors, but I thought that was more of a "do so at your 
 > own risk" thing.

I'm sure it has always been a "do so at your own risk" thing, but they never shyed away from touting how overclockable their chips were. Some BIOSs even had settings to auto-overclock safely. As a matter of fact, my last build which is still running is an Asus motherboard, and was overclocked by CyberpowerPC before they even sent it to me. My current build is a Gigabyte Auros motherboard, and has 3 or 4 settings to overclock. You don't have to mess with the voltage or anything yourself. You just select which setting you wish to overclock at, anywhere from a mild overclock that shouldn't mess with your temps at all, to an extreme one that you would probably need full on liquid cooling for.

I had decided not to overclock the i9-9900k, though. And it still has enough power for anything I throw at it.

 > I don't particularly feel sad about it either.  I feel like it's just 
 > weird to see Intel doing so badly lately when they've been so big in 
 > the market for so long.  I had actually used AMD processors for a 
 > long time in the past. I've been considering using AMD for my next PC 
 > as well.

They became a giant, gouged their prices, then probably started using shitty parts, had to hit deadlines so they rushed these more recent chips out the door in order to say they did it, and now they're paying the price.

 > One thing though is that Intel processors have QuickSync, which 
 > basically does hardware-based video encoding, and it helps with video 
 > transcoding.  I sometimes do video transcoding on my PC, and I have 
 > another PC that I run Plex Media Server on, and if Plex needs to 
 > transcode the video to a lower resolution (due to bandwidth issues or 
 > if the client TV has a smaller resolution), the QuickSync helps with 
 > that.  As far as I know, AMD CPUs don't have QuickSync, as it's an 
 > Intel-only technology.

I'd imagine most of the higher end AMD CPUs wouldn't have a single problem with any kind of work you put it through. Those X3D models are seeming pretty amazing at this point. I just can't see upgrading anything until I see some kind of bottleneck in my current setups, and at this point, I don't.. at all.

Regards,
Nick

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